Inject Faker into the Mirage.Factory attribute's closure

[mupkoo]

Inject Faker into the Mirage.Factory attribute's closure, so you can do something like

export default Mirage.Factory.extend({
  name: () => { return this.faker.name.firstName() }
});

Let me know what do you think and I will add it do the documentation.

[samselikoff]

Thanks for the PR! I'm wondering if we can make it even simpler, something like

import Mirage, {faker} from 'ember-cli-mirage';

export default Mirage.Factory.extend({
  name: faker.name.firstName
});

[samselikoff]

I've also thought it would be nice to have some way to specify a list of data to pull from, is this possible with Faker? For example, I like seeding my dev database with actual ted events so I can see what the UI will actually look like. I've done something like this before

export default Mirage.Factory.extend({
  title: i => {
    var list = [
      'TED2011',
      'TED Women 2011',
      'TED Global 2012',
      'TED 2013',
      'TED 2014',
      'TED Active 2014'
    ];
    return list[i % list.length];
  }
});

but it would be really nice to be able to do

export default Mirage.Factory.extend({
  title: faker.list(
    'TED2011',
    'TED Women 2011',
    'TED Global 2012',
    'TED 2013',
    'TED 2014',
    'TED Active 2014'
  )
});

or something like that.

[mupkoo]

Importing faker looks and feels better. The latest version exports fakers, so you can do it like you mentioned.

import Mirage, {faker} from 'ember-cli-mirage';

export default Mirage.Factory.extend({
  name: faker.name.firstName
});

But the project is using an old version of Babel, so I had to add two import lines in the dummy test app

import Mirage from 'ember-cli-mirage';
import { faker } from 'ember-cli-mirage';

As for the list helper, I created a helper method which gets exported as well. You can now do something like that and it will select a value from the list you have provided (the example will work with Babel 5)

import Mirage, { cycle } from 'ember-cli-mirage';

export default Mirage.Factory.extend({
   title: cycle('TED2011', 'TED2012')
});

If you think it's better to name it list or/and merge it into faker, let me know.

[mupkoo]

I had a change of hearts and decided to integrate list helpers into faker, but I created two helpers - random and cycle. One selects a random value from a list, the other one cycles them.

import Mirage, { faker } from 'ember-cli-mirage';

export default Mirage.Factory.extend({
   name: faker.list.random('Jane', 'John'),
   age: faker.list.cycle(30, 40, 50)
});

[samselikoff]

love this, exactly what I was thinking! thanks for your help!

[seanpdoyle]

This looks great!

[mupkoo]

Thank you @seanpdoyle

@samselikoff do you want me to create a PR with an update to the docs explaining about faker?

[samselikoff]

@mupkoo that would be great! Since it's a backwards-compatible new feature we'll release it in 0.1.3, but let's not worry about making a new version of the docs for 0.1.2. We should add a note that says Added in 0.1.3 somehow. You can look at the other <aside> tags, or make your own banner for this.

[samselikoff]

And we should also make Latest say Latest (0.1.x)

[mupkoo]

Ok. Can you tell me where I can find the documentation?

[samselikoff]

yep gh-pages branch

[seawatts]

@mupkoo Any updates on the docs?

[mupkoo]

@seawatts I haven't had any free time those days, but I think I will manage to create a PR this week

[seawatts]

@mupkoo 👍 Thanks!

[samselikoff]

@mupkoo @seawatts I'm taking care of this, almost had it finished last night but will wrap up today. I want everything to be under a v0.1.x docset with new features indicated with a banner.

Should have something pushed today or tomorrow.

btw, <3 this PR, been using it a lot and it's awesome!

[samselikoff]

faker docs added: http://www.ember-cli-mirage.com/docs/v0.1.x/factories/#using-fakerjs

[seawatts]

Woot 👍
On Jun 10, 2015 9:16 AM, "Sam Selikoff" notifications@github.com wrote:

faker docs added:
http://www.ember-cli-mirage.com/docs/v0.1.x/factories/#using-fakerjs

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[mupkoo]

Awesome! 👍 :)